10 Facts About the Mennonite Community |They are not Amish

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In this video I share 10 facts about the Mennonite Community. Many believe they are Amish...they are not Amish. I'll give a quick overview of their origins as well.

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I appreciate your attempt to "explain" the differences between Amish and Mennonites. You did a fairly good job for one who is not Anabaptist. Amish and Mennonites are both part of a larger Anabaptist family. Mennonites and Amish are Anabaptists ( do not baptize babies but practice believers baptism.) Anabaptists do not consider baptism of one who is not already a believer in Christ as any baptism at all so they would require one who converts to be "baptized" again as a believer.

The Mennonites get their name from Menno Simons. They did not "call themselves Mennonites" as you elude to. It was a name of derision given them by their enemies. The early Mennists or Mennonites called themselves simply believers or brethren but like the Quakers, (also a name given in derision by *their* enemies) they came to use it themselves. I will note that Quakers are not anabaptists. The Amish did leave the Mennonites over shunning though most Mennonites did and still do practice some form of shunning. The Mennonite family is very splintered. You say Mennonites have electricity and drive cars. Not true! Not all Mennonites believe in using electricity or drive cars. There are groups of conservative plain Mennonites we would refer to as "The Team Mennonites" and in another group known as "Old Colony Mennonites." Some of these oppose electricity and these groups oppose automobiles and drive horses. Likewise, the Amish are splintered so there are more liberal should we say, Amish groups such as the Beachy Amish who though they would not permit radios or TV's, would allow you to have a phone, electricity, and drive a conservative car, while still retaining the identity of Amish.

I know it is confusing, it gets more so when you begin to try and sort out the many groups of Amish and the dozens of different Mennonite groups. Add into this Anabaptist mix the Brethren and the Hutterites and it gets more confusing. There are Brethren groups as well who do not drive cars. All Hutterites believe in modern technology but retain plain dress and church in the German language, though they practice community of goods.

As for the foot washing, it is not just an act of humility. Many liberal Mennonites have now given it up to become like Protestants. True Anabaptists do not consider themselves to be either Catholic or Protestant. The Hutterites never practiced foot washing but the other groups did or still do. Yes, it's an act of humility, but you should not think the humility is in you washing someone else's feet. It's in receiving your feet washed. Too, you, I believe miss the spiritual application.

We believe in believers baptism because it is an outward expression of an inward action. As I've died to self and sin and been raised to newness of life in Christ, I request baptism which pictures my death burial and resurrection. In otherwords I got a bath in Christ and been made clean, and baptism is not an act that causes cleansing but simply pictures it and declares it to the world. Yet, we are left in this world and in our life journey we end up sinning again. When I sin, it is important I confess my sin, First John 1:9. It's like when I was a child, we went barefoot all week in summer but we only took a bath once a week. Every night before bed we washed our feet so's not to dirty up Mama's clean sheets.

In John 13, Jesus washes his disciples feet and tells them, "As I've washed your feet, so ought you to wash one another's feet." Peter didn't want his washed and Jesus said if he didn't wash them, then he had no part in Him. Suddenly Peter asks for a whole bath, but Jesus said, "If you've been washed you need only wash your feet." The two fold picture is foot washing is symbolic of my confession of sin after receiving Christ and baptism. I got my feet dirty and need them cleaned, I do not need a whole bath. Also Jesus said as I've washed your feet, wash one another's. He's saying, as I have forgiven you your sins, you need to forgive other people. This is the true picture of foot washing and why we practice it. Hope that makes you understand us a little better.

oldtimeway

Have a Merry Christmas. I always enjoy your respectful take on your neighbor's faith.

dianefortner

Thank You. Learned a lot. Keep up the good work.

kentmerrill

Good presentation. Hard to get the details in just a few minutes.

karlstine

I also thought the Amish were the oldest breakoff group. I enjoy all of your videos.

larrytomlinson

There are thousands of Old Order Mennonites who drive horses and buggies. Most of them live in PA. Infact, the most strictest of the Old Order churches are certain Mennonite churches where combustible engines are not used at all. There are Old Order German Baptist churches also that drive horses and buggies. Some of these churches are also very restrictive with phones and electric. So many different plain churches.

rogersiders

I appreciate you sharing the differences between the amish and Mennonite. As an someone who is neither amish or Mennonite I have attended both types of church services. We get invited 4 times a year to visit our amish friends church because we do work for their bishop here in Southern Indiana. And I attend church services every other Sunday night with my Mennonite friends that are like family. And both believe in the king James Bible as the true word of God. I have already been informed by my mennonite friend that Sunday services has been canceled due to the weather were experiencing. Church is like night and day if you ever get to go to both. Stay safe and warm everyone and have a blessed Merry Christmas

lacyhay

Great topic.
New to learning more about the Mennonite/Amish/Hutterites.
1)Do any of these communities pay taxes, insurance or allow government pensions?
2)Are females allowed to control/ride a buggy without her husband present?
3)Can one become a Mennonite without being born into one of these particular communities?
4)Are pets allowed in the home?
Thank you for your time!! 👍🏼🙏🏼

tedwazonek

There are so very mennonites that are very secular and endorse the practice of abortion, homosexuality, same sex marriages etc. I lived in Elkhart Co. Indiana. They are very industrious and "love" money. 8:09

timothygraff

If you are interested in learning more about the origins of the Amish Church then there is a fantastic book put together by Leroy Beachy called "Unser Leit" which is Pensylvanian Dutch for "Our People". Although the name of the book is in Pensylvanian Dutch the book itself is written in plain English. Leroy went to an amazing effort traveling back and forth from Switzerland compiling as many of the surviving historical records (including arrest warrants, baptisms, marriages, court documents etc) as he could find of a number of the key individuals, the spokesmen, the Bishops, the leading Ministers who were key figures in the formation of what was to become known as the Amish Church. Although ideologically very similar, and both arising from the reformation, the Amish actually never were Mennonite (Who were Dutch Anabaptists that arose independantly out of the reformation), but rather they have historically been termed the "Swiss Bretheren" and in fact rather than breaking away from the Mennonites, they actually embraced the Mennonite doctrinal position of their Dutch counterparts in 1690. It comes as a surprise to a number of people that Jacob Amman is not to be credited with the founding of the Amish but they were eventually nicknamed after him because of his role as a spokesperson for the group, a role for which he gained widespread infamy in the Protestant Swiss Cantons from where they originated. The reason I mentioned this is because the Amish by and large do not really teach much in regards their history to each subsequent generation who for the most part leave school with an 8th grade education. This means you will get a different story of the origins of the Amish depending on who you ask. The truth is, most Amish know very little about this topic due to the nature of their schooling systems and so the knowledge gets lost and distorted as its passed down through word of mouth and sometimes not passed down at all. Its for these reasons that work such as that done by Leroy Beachy is so important because otherwise this kind of information can get lost forever.

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